The Crisis of Credit Visualised

We are doomed


The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

19/24 predictions right...

And Slumdog won 8 awards! That constitutes as a sweep.

Final Oscars Predictions

Slumdog Millionaire

• Best Picture
• Best Director (Danny Boyle)
• Best Adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy)
• Best Cinematography (Anthony Dod Mantle)
• Best Film Editing (Chris Dickens)
• Best Score (A.R. Rahman)
• Best Song ("Jai Ho", A.R. Rahman)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

• Best Art Direction (Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt, Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo)
• Best Makeup (Greg Cannom)
• Best Visual Effects (Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron)

The Dark Knight

• Best Supporting Actor (Heath Ledger)
• Best Sound Editing (Richard King)
• Best Sound Mixing (Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick)

The Reader - Best Actress (Kate Winslet)

The Wrestler - Best Actor (Mickey Rourke)

Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Best Supporting Actress (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)

Milk - Best Original Screenplay

Waltz With Bashir - Best Foreign Film

Man On Wire - Best Documentary

WALL-E - Best Animated Film

The Duchess - Best Costume Design

Presto - Best Short Film Animated

Toyland - Best Short Film Live Action

The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 - Best Short Documentary

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Rethreading

As I was looking back on the decade which ends this year, there is a band which popped out in the millennium and gave us good yet radio-friendly music - Coldplay.

They gave us all the reassurance we needed from the first song of their debut album. Or am I not cynical enough?

Don't Panic - Coldplay

Oh, we're sinking like stones,
All that we fought for,
All those places we've gone,
All of us are done for.

We live in a beautiful world,
Yeah we do, yeah we do,
We live in a beautiful world,

Oh, we're sinking like stones,
All that we fought for,
All those places we've gone,
All of us are done for.

We live in a beautiful world,
Yeah we do, yeah we do,
We live in a beautiful world.

Oh, all that I know,
There's nothing here to run from,
And there, everybody here's got somebody to lean on.

Heritage

World Names Profiler

It only has data for the following 25 countries though, so it's not that representative.
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA.

Just type in your surname, and it will reflect the region, country, city that has the most no. of people with the same surname as you.

And the top 5 cities for me are :

OSLO , OSLO , NORWAY
BROOKLYN , NEW YORK , UNITED STATES
CALGARY , ALBERTA , CANADA
SAN FRANCISCO , CALIFORNIA , UNITED STATES
SEATTLE , WASHINGTON , UNITED STATES

Gosh, more places that I wanna visit.

#1 : The Dark Knight

There is nothing to write about. Expecting something else? It's a shame the Academy decided to give the film 8 nominations. It should have been 10. Best Picture and Best Director - Christopher Nolan for the incredible vision he had to make this film possible.

And of course Heath Ledger. You'll be missed.

Recap:

#1 : The Dark Knight
#2 : WALL-E
#3 : There Will Be Blood
#4 : No Country For Old Men
#5 : The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
#6 : Away From Her
#7 : Persepolis
#8 : Eastern Promises
#9 : Juno
#10 : The Savages